"Huskily" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... entered, flushed and with wide-open eyes. At the same instant the inner door swung noiselessly back, and Hugh Ritson stood on the threshold. Greta was about to speak, but Hugh motioned her to silence. His face was pale, his hand trembled. "Too late," he said, huskily; "he is dead!" ...
— A Son of Hagar - A Romance of Our Time • Sir Hall Caine
... lad," he said, huskily. "I'd forgotten about our arrangement. Did I say this Sunday ...
— Dialstone Lane, Complete • W.W. Jacobs
... do," he said, huskily. "I'm all up in the air. I'd like to be a man like what you told about and like these people that have been good to me lately. I'd do it even if I wouldn't like some of the things I'd have to swallow. But I don't understand what ...
— The Boy Scout Treasure Hunters - The Lost Treasure of Buffalo Hollow • Charles Henry Lerrigo
... to know," he went on, huskily, "that I appreciate your standing by me, and if we get out of this alive, you and I, with our discharge papers, I promise I'll be your partner in this new enterprise—the quest for treasure; that is, ...
— Lost In The Air • Roy J. Snell
... 'Go home.'" His skull-cap drawn forward, and his face set and threatening, he leaned forward with his powerful arms on the table and spoke in his usual low, unemphatic way, and with his deliberate, huskily-musical voice. Field laughed: his right arm was back upon the arm of his chair, and his fingers under his coat played with something ...
— Lippincott's Magazine. Vol. XII, No. 33. December, 1873. • Various
... Jim, huskily; "nev' min', honey." He had seen Ike's face when the messenger had come for him at the brickyard, and the memory of it was like a knife at ...
— The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories • Paul Laurence Dunbar
... the appointment of Mr. Crow. When the court asked in mild surprise why he did not adopt the child, Anderson and Eva looked at each other sheepishly and were silent for a full minute. Then Anderson spoke up a bit huskily: ...
— The Daughter of Anderson Crow • George Barr McCutcheon
... I'm going to let this young mucker make a fool of me?" demanded the Melville youth, huskily. "I've just ...
— The Submarine Boys' Trial Trip - "Making Good" as Young Experts • Victor G. Durham
... you," rang in his ears as the door put a period to the interview. He stopped and took up the battered suitcase and rusty overcoat which he had left outside the junior partner's office, then went on, shaking his head. "Much obliged," he said huskily to himself. "But what's the good of that. There's no room anywhere for a professional failure. And that's what I am; just a ne'er-do-well. I never realised what that meant, really, before, and it's certainly taken me a damn' ...
— The Fortune Hunter • Louis Joseph Vance
... dilated. He gasped huskily. He pulled his gun, but actually did not have strength or courage enough to raise it. His arm shook so that the gun ...
— The Mysterious Rider • Zane Grey
... Anderson paused huskily and swallowed hard while he looked away across the fields. Lenore felt herself drawn by an irresistible power. The west wind rustled through the waving wheat. She heard the whir of the threshers. ...
— The Desert of Wheat • Zane Grey
... dark straw toque against the cushion, he would become suddenly alert. Kicking the Irishman slightly in the effort, he would slip his legs down, bend across to her in the darkness, and, conscious of a faint fragrance as of violets, whisper huskily: "Anything I can do for you, my dear?" When she had smiled and shaken her head, he would retreat, and after holding his breath to see if Dolly were asleep, would restore his feet, slightly kicking the Irishman. After one such ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... that—it was the interests he was down on. Herman Vielhaber, melding eighty kings, said it was a good rich-man's country, but also a good poor-man's country, because where could you find one half as good—not in all Europe—and he now laid down forty jacks, which he huskily ...
— The Wrong Twin • Harry Leon Wilson
... that from time to time he rallied sufficiently to comb his own hair before Barbara was let in with her snowdrops, and that he could give orders to Partridge in a loud, firm tone; but he was too ill to do more than whisper huskily to ...
— Mr. Waddington of Wyck • May Sinclair
... that the old parson gets it, Morrison," said Atkins huskily; "he'll do more good with it ...
— Tessa - 1901 • Louis Becke
... friends,'" she said rather huskily. "I wish we could be 'best friends.' Would you have me for yours? You're clever, and I'm the stupidest child in the school, but I—oh, ...
— A Little Princess • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... saying huskily. "You're in deadly peril. The police are waiting in your office, three of 'em. I'm goin' to lock the whole bunch in and throw the ...
— The Man in Lower Ten • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... overcome again. "Win," he said huskily, "you're an angel! When you speak like that you cause all my sins and shortcomings to rise up before me, and I feel as if I were not worthy of your love and tenderness. Ah, little sister, it is little pure souls like yours that ...
— Aunt Judith - The Story of a Loving Life • Grace Beaumont
... your sermon," he said huskily; "I hope to get some help from that. But you!—you are making things harder for me every word you utter. You don't understand ...
— The Choir Invisible • James Lane Allen
... to feel her cheek soft against his, her head trustfully on his shoulder. He said huskily, ...
— The Colors of Space • Marion Zimmer Bradley
... think much of your father, my child," he said, huskily, "if he let me whip you, even if I ...
— Lydia of the Pines • Honore Willsie Morrow
... mother," said the younger woman huskily. "They are friends. I know they are friends. Come, sit by ...
— Erling the Bold • R.M. Ballantyne
... eyes looking the darker for his flushed face. "Gentlemen," he said huskily, "thar's only one thing to be done. A lot of us have got to ride over to Sawyer's Dam tomorrow morning and pick up as many square men as we can muster; there's a big camp meeting goin' on there, and there won't be no difficulty in that. When we've got ...
— Selected Stories • Bret Harte
... know what to say. Come here." Dick coughed huskily, wondering, indeed, what he should say, and how to say ...
— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling
... man, huskily. "No, no, Mary! It can't be! It must not be! Richard Peveril is dead, and the contract is void. He has no claim on the Copper Princess. It is all mine. Mine and yours. But don't let him know. Keep the secret for one week longer—only one little week—then ...
— The Copper Princess - A Story of Lake Superior Mines • Kirk Munroe
... "Very well," she said, then, scarcely above a whisper, and she presently laughed huskily. "Mr. Corey seems fated to come in, somewhere. I ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... hesitated, his little, ferret eyes shifting uneasily from her to the desk and back again. "I guess I ain't goin' to take orders from no gal!" he muttered, huskily. ...
— Queen Hildegarde • Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
... gentleman called early at the little counting-room, as in the days when he might hope to find some ship of his own, fresh from the Orient, warping into the dock. Jamie's lips were dry, and his voice came huskily. He gave up the effort to speak of St. Clair's death, but asked briefly that Mr. Bowdoin would get him ...
— Pirate Gold • Frederic Jesup Stimson
... wonder you're afraid," continued Ralph, huskily. "You little wild bird, you've been in a cage all your life. I'm going to open the door and set ...
— A Spinner in the Sun • Myrtle Reed
... the room, at the far, closed doors where it was not inconceivable that old Miriam was lurking, and strode over to her and began talking very jerkily and huskily, over her ...
— The Fortieth Door • Mary Hastings Bradley
... "sprach nodin 'pout Yangee kirls no more;" and how at last Uncle Andrew walked home with her, I have not time to tell. When the Philosopher bade her adieu, he called her names which she did not understand. But she turned back to him, and after a minute's hesitation, spoke huskily. "Uncle Andrew if he—if he should get ...
— The End Of The World - A Love Story • Edward Eggleston
... huskily. "I ken. Ye wouldna gie her a common or a public spot in which to wait for ye. An' ye'll be shuttin' down the mill an' loggin'-camps an' layin' off the hands in ...
— The Valley of the Giants • Peter B. Kyne
... yes," said the skipper huskily, "that is just about the sum and substance of it. But don't you trouble about us, or about your sister and the rest of them either for that matter. We shall be all right, never fear. The island yonder, though it is but a small strip ...
— The Missing Merchantman • Harry Collingwood
... have," shouted Roberts, huskily. "An' that wife would disown me if I left Joan Randle to you. An' I've got a grown girl. Mebbe some day she might need a man to stand between her an' such as you, ...
— The Border Legion • Zane Grey
... done nothing so likely to save us both," he said huskily, and then could think of nothing more to say. He drew her to him as though to kiss her, but a blind movement of the old rage with him or circumstance leapt in her, and she pulled herself away. The thought of that particular moment had done more perhaps than anything else ...
— Sir George Tressady, Vol. II • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... his lips now were as colorless as his cheeks. "I'm surprised, hurt," he managed to say. "How should I know? Why, this is wretched—rotten! People will say that I've got in a mess with a married woman. That's what it looks like, too." His voice broke huskily. "How could you do it, when I meant my love to be clean, honorable? How could you let me put myself, and you, ...
— The Winds of Chance • Rex Beach
... less than that of the five. They were in the thick of it and could see what was done, but he had to lead on and wait. He counted the dusk figures as they approached him, one, two, three, four, five, and perhaps no man ever felt greater relief. He advanced toward them and said huskily: ...
— The Scouts of the Valley • Joseph A. Altsheler
... our band. First to the cradle light we stepped, Where Lilian the baby slept, A glory 'gainst the pillow white. Softly the father stooped to lay His rough hand down in loving way, When dream or whisper made her stir, And huskily he said: "Not her!" ...
— McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader • William Holmes McGuffey
... huskily, his voice sounding as if it came from the next room,—"Maria, I s'pose you know what ...
— The Life of Nancy • Sarah Orne Jewett
... the sound of the other name you're asking after for a matter of better than twenty year: and I don't care if I never hear it again." His voice sank huskily, and he turned his head a little away from Zack, as he said those words. "They nicknamed me 'Marksman,' when I used to go out with the exploring gangs, because I was the best shot of all of them. You call me Marksman, too, if you don't like Mat. Mister Mathew Marksman, if you please: ...
— Hide and Seek • Wilkie Collins
... about the future, so she took things into her own hands and went, without waiting for yes or no, or anything except to find a woman who'd look after father and me while she was gone. Well, she never came back. Can you guess what became of her?" he asked, huskily. ...
— The Second Latchkey • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson
... he said huskily, as he put her from him gently. "I don't think I should have the courage to let you go if I did. I didn't mean to ...
— The Sheik - A Novel • E. M. Hull
... not that," said the Sergeant huskily; "but they were both amongst the missing as I tried to call ...
— Trapped by Malays - A Tale of Bayonet and Kris • George Manville Fenn
... broke huskily. He turned and walked rapidly down the hall, upon the veranda, and down the steps. His classmates were waiting for him. They rushed up to him, demanding that he tell them what ...
— The Plastic Age • Percy Marks
... huskily, leaning far over the corpse, and, needle in hand, menacing his companion with his aguish fist. "Take that back, or I'll throttle your lean bag of ...
— White Jacket - or, the World on a Man-of-War • Herman Melville
... will try," she said, and suddenly began to chuckle, rolling upon one hip and throwing one foot over the other like a man taking an easy attitude. She now held the pencil as if it were a cigarette, laughing again with such generous tone that the other women recoiled. Then she spoke, huskily. "You know—San Remo—Sands," came brokenly from ...
— The Shadow World • Hamlin Garland
... who caught the other in her arms and under pretense of smoothing tumbled curls, hugged the child in motherly yearning over her; then she gave her a very clean-smelling, sudsy kiss and pushed her toward the door, crying rather huskily: ...
— A Sunny Little Lass • Evelyn Raymond
... must be dreaming!" whispered Jack huskily. "Tell me, is that man in there really Carl Potzfeldt, the good-for-nothing guardian of little ...
— Air Service Boys Over The Enemy's Lines - The German Spy's Secret • Charles Amory Beach
... laughed again,—a little huskily this time, for there was a sudden unaccountable and unwished-for lump in his throat, and a moisture in his eyes which he had not bargained for. Philip looked up,—and silently held out his hand, which Lorimer as silently clasped. There ...
— Thelma • Marie Corelli
... danger," he answered huskily, sinking into a chair. "I am a fool not to have thought of ...
— The Master of Silence • Irving Bacheller
... fighter. If the Shawnees don't get me, I can make plenty more, so it's just as broad as it's long. Anyhow, the Sisters will know what to do with the wad. Say! I wish it had been bigger. They took me into the room where the youngsters stay," he said huskily, rubbing his head harder than ever. "They said—them real ladies said—that they would raise up the children to love me, and pray for me. When I come away they cried—them real ladies—about me, old Tommy Dye, that ain't ...
— Round Anvil Rock - A Romance • Nancy Huston Banks
... chance at Cory," the woman answered, huskily. "I expect he's afraid the cops are after him, too, on account of the trouble, and he doesn't want to git locked up till he's met Cory again. They ain't after him, but he may not know it. They haven't heard of the trouble, I reckon, or they'd of run Cory in. HE'S around town to-day, ...
— The Conquest of Canaan • Booth Tarkington
... out huskily at last. "My reputation in the department is at stake, my promotion, my position itself, my - my family - ...
— The Poisoned Pen • Arthur B. Reeve
... the end of it, but long after the bridal party was in position the faint, jerky sounds still wavered on, now vanishing altogether in a dumb show, now, just as the people were hopefully thinking the ordeal over, becoming huskily audible. There seemed enough of the thing, Mrs. Long said afterward, to give Arabella time to walk over to the next concession ...
— Treasure Valley • Marian Keith
... he said huskily. "Of course we are friends; the best friends. We shall always be friends. I have never let anyone say a word against you, and I never will. I am proud to think that you are known by my name. I only wish that I could make it worthy of you—and, ...
— The Heavenly Twins • Madame Sarah Grand
... laughed huskily; and the minister turned to greet Messrs. Botterill and Kershaw, who were waiting, pipes in ...
— The Golden Shoemaker - or 'Cobbler' Horn • J. W. Keyworth
... fer us to promise," Gess said huskily. "We're jest bound to holler when the fireworks begins to go off, even if ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X) • Various
... was better to accept his fate, and forbear. He tried to say something to soften the harshness of parting, but his powers of thought and speech deserted him, and he knew that whatever he would say must be put into one or two words. He looked up, hesitatingly stretched out his hand, and asked huskily: ...
— The Faith Doctor - A Story of New York • Edward Eggleston
... some too,' the slow one sang huskily as he stumbled along with difficulty 'but there's never any hurry. I'll fill their journeys with desire and make adventure call ...
— A Prisoner in Fairyland • Algernon Blackwood
... baggage I've got; just a few clothes," he muttered huskily. "I crawled in here last night to sleep. I've got to see Fred before I go. I've been waiting two days for a chance to ...
— Otherwise Phyllis • Meredith Nicholson
... here, Florence," called Patty huskily, from the other side of the yard. "Let's talk ...
— Gentle Julia • Booth Tarkington
... "Wait," she commanded huskily. "Remember! Don't either of you say a word about—about his being possibly the boy I'm looking for. I must see for myself first, ...
— Pollyanna Grows Up • Eleanor H. Porter
... terraced camps, that broke into a jubilant roar as he reached them. But he did not pause until he had gained the very trenches, where among the wondering Rough Riders he slipped wearily from his foam-flecked horse, shouting huskily but exultantly as ...
— "Forward, March" - A Tale of the Spanish-American War • Kirk Munroe
... blow. The carpenter's mouth was open in amazement. Neddie Benson, the first to move or break the silence, had spread his hands as if he were about to clutch at a butterfly or a beetle; dropping them to his side, he gasped huskily, "She said there'd be a light man and a ...
— The Mutineers • Charles Boardman Hawes
... broke her heart to leave us," returned his father huskily. "Dear heart, how she prayed that we might be spared that parting; but ...
— Herb of Grace • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... sit down," he said huskily. "Something else has gone wrong at the store, I suppose. Well, let it go; it can ...
— For Gold or Soul? - The Story of a Great Department Store • Lurana W. Sheldon
... frightened," Saxon quavered huskily, with a half-sob of nervousness. "You frighten me. I am very foolish, and I know so little, that ...
— The Valley of the Moon • Jack London
... know me?" Trent said huskily. "I'm Scarlett Trent—we went up to Bekwando together, you know. I thought you were dead, Monty, or ...
— A Millionaire of Yesterday • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... stab his pudding, wipe the dagger, and eat his pudding all up. He was a man whose figure promised cadaverousness, but who had an excessively red face, though shaped like a horse's. On the second occasion of my seeing him, he said huskily to the man of sleep, 'Am I red to-night?' 'You are,' he uncompromisingly answered. 'My mother,' said the spectre, 'was a red-faced woman that liked drink, and I looked at her hard when she laid in her coffin, and I took the complexion.' Somehow, the pudding seemed ...
— The Uncommercial Traveller • Charles Dickens
... "Yes," answered Cora, huskily. "Oh, has anything happened? Have you heard any news? Tell me! Oh!" and she clutched at her wildly ...
— The Motor Girls on Waters Blue - Or The Strange Cruise of The Tartar • Margaret Penrose
... mean?' said Laura, speaking huskily, with her head bent over the bronze insect. 'What can it mean?' she asked again, and looked up ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... with a sigh of regret for the lie so laboriously concocted which would never now be uttered, delivered himself huskily of the hideous truth. ...
— The Snare • Rafael Sabatini
... I'm sorry, you damned little cuss," he said huskily as the youngster looked up into his face. "If I'd have knowed that he was your dog I'd have let him chaw my arm off before I'd have ...
— The Boss of the Lazy Y • Charles Alden Seltzer
... wasn't all lies," said Bruce, huskily. "I was half drunk—an' horrible jealous.... You know Lorenzo seen Isbel kissin' ...
— To the Last Man • Zane Grey
... Lewes yesterday," he panted huskily. "I see that tall inspector chap—him I put on ...
— Boy Woodburn - A Story of the Sussex Downs • Alfred Ollivant
... said huskily. "You'd have found it without me. You—" Something he had kept bottled all morning, something he had never expected to say, tumbled from his lips. "You should have knocked my ...
— Don Strong, Patrol Leader • William Heyliger
... s'loon," said the cabby, promptly and huskily. "I know a place I could take money in with both hands. It's a four-story brick on a corner. I've got it figured out. Second story—Chinks and chop suey; third floor—manicures and foreign missions; fourth floor—poolroom. If you was thinking of ...
— The Voice of the City • O. Henry
... huskily, "can you forgive me for going away? Can't you—come to me? How do you get ...
— Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman • Thomas Hardy
... countenance, and in the unconscious appeal with which his blue eyes surveyed Madge and me in turn. But in a few moments he collected himself, as if for the necessary dealing with some unexpected castastrophe, and asked me, a little huskily still: ...
— Philip Winwood • Robert Neilson Stephens
... fell again. "There was the attic," she whispered a bit huskily. "You wouldn't rent ...
— Little Eve Edgarton • Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
... know life, nor men, nor women," he said huskily and clutched her hands in his. "If life cheats and injures you, you have a right to snatch what joy you can. It's not only what you do to love, but what you do to yourself, that counts. For real ...
— At the Crossroads • Harriet T. Comstock
... of Genesis was attracted by a convulsive tugging of the tub which he supported in common with William; it seemed passionately to urge greater speed. A hissing issued from the boiler, and Genesis caught the words, huskily whispered: ...
— Seventeen - A Tale Of Youth And Summer Time And The Baxter Family Especially William • Booth Tarkington
... Perry," he said, a little huskily. "You look as unconcerned, as cool as—as a confounded cucumber! And now, Perry, remember to aim low, all pistols are apt to throw high—so, for heaven's sake aim ...
— Peregrine's Progress • Jeffery Farnol
... to—hold me," she said, huskily, and he felt her body shrink close to his. She clung tightly to him, trembling at first, then shaking in every limb. Fright, it seemed, had ...
— Flowing Gold • Rex Beach
... packer staring at him in the gloom. "You don't think I'm sellin' myself, do you, Aldous?" he asked huskily. "That ain't why you're doin' this—for me 'n ...
— The Hunted Woman • James Oliver Curwood
... smile parted his parched lips, and all the tenderness with which his soul was overflowing for this sweet young bud of humanity would have found expression in his voice but that he could only mutter huskily: ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... ask me, mother," she returned, a little huskily, "I do not think Archie looks very well, or in his usual spirits; but I am sure Mattie takes good care of him," she continued, with ...
— Not Like Other Girls • Rosa N. Carey
... from Mlle. de Varion to the governor," he answered, huskily, "and that at the top of the hill that rises from the throne-shaped rock by the river road to Narjec is the burrow of the ...
— An Enemy To The King • Robert Neilson Stephens
... on our account, please," said the Millstones huskily. "So long as you supply the power we'll supply the ...
— Traffics and Discoveries • Rudyard Kipling
... own absorption in their boy she had attributed it to that. But early one evening he came in with a sheaf of roses in his arms, and when she had exclaimed at them and breathed deep of their dewy fragrance, Joe bent over and kissed her, and said a little huskily: ...
— His Second Wife • Ernest Poole
... from his chair. "No one ever had a truer friend than I have in you," he said, huskily. "But it seems to me that Alice may have changed with the lapse of years; she may have become easier to ...
— Brooke's Daughter - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant
... embraced an agony of suspense, passed in the same fashion; then a shadowy form grew, phantomesque, out of the gloom; a moment more, and I distinctly heard the heavy breathing of a man nearly spent, and saw my friend scrambling up toward the black embrasure in the tower. His voice came huskily, pantingly: ...
— The Devil Doctor • Sax Rohmer
... been convicted, by whatever unfair means, of the same offence, is liable to be looked on with suspicion. And I shouldn't like"—for a second Sir Richard, who loved Chloe Carstairs as though she had been his daughter, faltered, and cleared his throat rather huskily—"I shouldn't like that poor, pretty creature over yonder ...
— Afterwards • Kathlyn Rhodes
... said huskily. "She loved this worn, old book more than anything else, and little Melisse must love it also. ...
— The Honor of the Big Snows • James Oliver Curwood
... Horace, huskily. He labored for a moment with something in his throat, and afterwards ...
— The Monster and Other Stories - The Monster; The Blue Hotel; His New Mittens • Stephen Crane
... last by the Count Muffat and the deputy, came up in a fury. Drops of perspiration stood on his forehead, and he grumbled huskily: ...
— Nana, The Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille • Emile Zola
... me, Paul," he said huskily. "I am not fitted for the work. I am broken down, a trifler, a worn out old dandy. You have got the right metal in Alexis. See to it that he does not follow my example, but keeps unstained ...
— A Son of the Immortals • Louis Tracy
... bad cold," he said. "I have," she replied huskily. "I am so hoarse that if you attempted to kiss me I ...
— The New Pun Book • Thomas A. Brown and Thomas Joseph Carey
... gone—what 'n hell's come off?" huskily asked Anson. "It, only seems thet way. We're all worked up.... ...
— The Man of the Forest • Zane Grey
... Alf huskily. "You did not understand. English people speak words that they do not mean to hurt. It is I who should ask forgiveness for what I said about you. ...
— The Fiery Totem - A Tale of Adventure in the Canadian North-West • Argyll Saxby
... ghastly war should not be over as soon as we all hope," he said, rather huskily, "I could escort you myself, in a few weeks' time, to the Cape. Or—or arrange for your going earlier if you desired, and if I could not get away. Probably you would get no further than Cape Town; but it might be easier ...
— Peter's Mother • Mrs. Henry De La Pasture
... President and wild-eyed Gail pushed through the knot of children huddled about the fallen heroine, and demanded huskily, "How is she? Not dead? Thank ...
— Heart of Gold • Ruth Alberta Brown
... better tidings. At noon the men returned from their search, jaded and dispirited. After the first explanations were over, Mr. Hedden called one of the party aside and whispered, huskily— ...
— Po-No-Kah - An Indian Tale of Long Ago • Mary Mapes Dodge
... the first to break the silence. "Damn it," he said huskily, "if Neil didn't look so exactly like a brigand chief I believe I should blubber. Eh, ...
— A Rogue by Compulsion • Victor Bridges
... to be manager, at a fixed salary?" said James hurriedly and huskily, his fine fingers slowly rubbing each ...
— The Lost Girl • D. H. Lawrence
... wrote to her at once," said Staniford, huskily, "and explained the matter as well as I could without making an ado about it. But now you stop, Dunham. If you excite yourself, there'll be the deuce to ...
— The Lady of the Aroostook • W. D. Howells
... half blown of his breath with the height of the hill, Was white in the face when the ten-tined buck and the does Drew leaping to burn-ward; huskily rose His shouts, and his nether lip twitched, and his legs were o'er-weak ...
— Select Poems of Sidney Lanier • Sidney Lanier
... did not know her, then: "God's glory!" he said huskily, getting to his feet—"is it the sweet face o' Miss Greensleeve or the angel in her come back f'r to ...
— Athalie • Robert W. Chambers
... and beneath the gaze of the other boys his eyes were those of a little hunted animal at bay. "Bethlehem," he said, huskily. ...
— Stories Worth Rereading • Various
... handle of her fork sticky in her clasp her patience gave out, she could not eat with dirty messy things, and she would not. With a face like a thunder-cloud she laid down both again, "I don't think I will have any, thank you," she said huskily. "I—I——" She was so thoroughly put out she could scarcely speak, for she really was very hungry and ...
— Anxious Audrey • Mabel Quiller-Couch |
